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The Dead of the Irish Revolution by Eunan O'Halpin
RRP: $70.95$58.94The first comprehensive account to record and analyze all deaths arising from the Irish revolution between 1916 and 1921"A monumental new book [and] an incredible piece of research. . . . Formidable, authoritative and handsomely produced, The Dead of the... -
The I.R.A. and its Enemies: Violence and Community in Cork, 1916-1923 by Peter Hart 9780198208068
RRP: $77.40$59.43What is it like to be in the I.R.A. - or at their mercy? This fascinating study explores the lives and deaths of the enemies and victims of the County Cork I.R.A. between 1916 and 1923 - the most powerful and deadly branch of the I.R.A. during one of the... -
Ireland: A New Economic History 1780-1939 by Cormac O Grada 9780198205982
RRP: $79.98$67.03Ireland: A New Economic History offers a fresh, comprehensive economic history of Ireland between 1780 and 1939. Its methodology is mould-breaking, and it is unparalleled in its broad scope and comparative focus. Cormac O Grada unites historical research... -
A New Ireland: Politics, Peace, and Reconciliation by John Hume
RRP: $16.76$12.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568332093Author John HumeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Roberts Rinehart PublishersPublisher Roberts Rinehart PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Early Ireland: An Introduction to Irish Prehistory by Michael J. O'Kelly 9780521336871
RRP: $70.94$60.73Engagingly written and packed with illustrations, Early Ireland offers an authoritative introduction to the riches of Irish prehistory - a span of eight thousand years from the end of the Ice Age to the first centuries of the Christian era. It provides a... -
Fierce Appetites: Loving, losing and living to excess in my present and in the writings of the past by Elizabeth Boyle
RRP: $14.18$10.31'Like nothing else you will read' Hilary MantelTop 25 History Books of the Year, The Times - the perfect gift for book lovers this Christmas!Every day a beloved father dies. Every day a lover departs. Every day a woman turns forty.All three happening... -
Witnesses Of War: Children's Lives Under the Nazis Nicholas Stargardt 9781844130856
RRP: $24.50$17.83Witnesses of War is the first work to show how children experienced the Second World War under the Nazis. Children were often the victims in this most terrible of European conflicts, falling prey to bombing, mechanised warfare, starvation policies, mass... -
Rebuilding London: Irish Migrants in Post-War Britain by Miki Garcia 9781845888770
RRP: $16.76$12.73The years immediately after the Second World War were known as the decade of disappearing Irish - the peak period of emigration since the Great Famine. Many of these migrants went to Britain and played a key role in the rebuilding the country after the... -
We Just Got On With It: Changes Before, During and After the Second World War in Northern Ireland by Doreen McBride
RRP: $21.92$16.94'But we will do what we have always done - just get on with it.'The contributions of Northern Ireland to allied efforts in the Second World War are widely celebrated, acknowledged by both Sir Winston Churchill and Theodore Roosevelt as vital to their... -
Unspoken: A Father's Wartime Escape. A Son's Family Discovered by Tom McGrath
RRP: $20.63$15.21'A triumph of family story-telling' Hugo Hamilton, author of The Pages. A tale of three journeys, the final one a successful pursuit of shadows' Myles Dungan Growing up in Waterford, Tom McGrath never noticed the odd gaps in the stories of his... -
Contemporary Ireland by Eoin O'Malley 9780230516700
$47.94In the last quarter century, Ireland has experienced dramatic political and economic change. This broad-ranging text provides an accessible and up-to-date introduction to Irish society, politics and culture, as well as developments in its economy and... -
Ancestral Voices in Irish Politics: Judging Dillon and Parnell by Prof Paul Bew 9780192873705
RRP: $32.25$27.34The story of Charles Stewart Parnell, one of the greatest Irish leaders of the nineteenth century and also one of the most renowned figures of the 1880s on the international stage, and John Dillon, the most celebrated of Parnell's lieutenants. As Paul... -
The IRA and Armed Struggle by Rogelio Alonso
RRP: $56.75$49.59The IRA is one of the oldest terrorist organizations in the world and conducted a ferociously violent campaign for almost thirty years. Now deeply enmeshed in the Northern Ireland peace process, Rogelio Alonso asks why one of the bloodiest terrorist... -
Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America by James Webb
RRP: $20.63$15.21More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England's Ulster Plantation in... -
Skean: The Distinctive Fighting Knife of Gaelic Ireland, 1500-1700 by Robert Gresh
RRP: $29.66$20.19This is the history of the distinctive fighting knife of the Gaelic Irish, the skean (Irish: scian). Author Robert Gresh has scoured primary sources for references to the weapon in use and traveled to examine the known surviving examples. The skean fell... -
Cith Is Dealán by Seamus Ó' Grianna 9780853424482
RRP: $18.05$17.20Séamus Ó Grianna (Máire) was born in Rannafast in the Rosses of County Donegal. He wrote many novels and short stories about his native place which were treasured for their idioms and their picture of Donegal life at the turn of the century. His dislike... -
The Catholic Church and the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968-1998 by Margaret M. Scull
RRP: $43.85$40.14Until surprisingly recently the history of the Irish Catholic Church during the Northern Irish Troubles was written by Irish priests and bishops and was commemorative, rather than analytical. This study uses the Troubles as a case study to evaluate the... -
Fermanagh by Margaret Unwin
RRP: $24.50$20.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838041632Author Margaret UnwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Eastwood BooksPublisher Wordwell -
Orange, Green and Khaki: Story of the Irish Regiments in the Great War, 1914-18 by Tom Johnstone 9780717119943
RRP: $25.79$23.23Nearly a third of a million Irishmen fought in the Great War and 50,000 died. There was a significant Irish presence in every major theatre of war. The Irish were mobilised in three divisions - the 10th, the 16th and the 36th - as well as in the... -
The Alliance of Pirates: Ireland and Atlantic Piracy in the Early Seventeenth Century by Connie Kelleher 9781782053651
$39.38In the early part of the seventeenth-century, along the southwest coast of Ireland, piracy was a way of life. Following the outlawing of privateering in 1603 by the new king of England, disenfranchised like-minded men of the sea, many former privateers,... -
Constitution of the Irish Free State by Assembly of Ireland 9781088188989
RRP: $7.73$6.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088188989Author Assembly of IrelandFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 95g -
Roger Casement: Human Rights Hero by Gaye Shortland 9781781998762
$10.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781998762Author Gaye ShortlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Poolbeg - In A NutshellPublisher Poolbeg Press Ltd -
Wolves in Ireland: A Natural and Cultural History by Kieran Hickey 9781846824234
$18.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846824234Author Kieran HickeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd -
Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000 by R. F. Foster
RRP: $14.18$10.31R.F. Foster's Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000 examines how the country has weathered thirty years of rapid transformation, and what these changes may mean in the long run. From 1970, things were changing in Ireland - the Celtic... -
Ordinary Lives, Death, and Social Class: Dublin City Coroner's Court, 1876-1902 by Ciara Breathnach 9780198865780
RRP: $125.13$113.30Ordinary Lives, Death, and Social Class focuses on the evolution of the Dublin City Coroner's Court and on Dr Louis A. Bryne's first two years in office. Wrapping itself around the 1901 census, the study uses gender, power, and blame as analytical... -
The Rising (New Edition): Ireland: Easter 1916 by Fearghal McGarry
RRP: $21.92$15.84The Easter Rising of 1916 not only destroyed much of the centre of Dublin -- it changed the course of Irish history. But why did it happen? What was the role of ordinary people in this extraordinary event? What motivated them and what were their aims?... -
Michael Logue and the Catholic Church in Ireland, 1879-1925 by John Privilege 9780719091322
RRP: $25.79$22.72Michael Logue and the Catholic Church in Ireland, 1879-1925 provides a review and consideration of the role of the Catholic Church in Ireland during the intense political and social changes after 1879 through a major figure in Irish history, Michael... -
The Country House at War: Life below stairs and above stairs during the war by Simon Greaves
RRP: $25.80$18.50A fascinating illustrated history of the First World War told through the great houses of the National Trust. The First World War touched every family in the country and this book tells a story of national collective action and intense private experience... -
The Letters of John McGahern by Frank Shovlin 9780571387410
RRP: $21.92$16.23'Magnificent.' Irish Times'Much to savour.' The Times'An event in Irish culture.' TLSThe collected letters of John McGahern, 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the most important Irish novelist since Samuel Beckett.'... -
Spike Island's Republican Prisoners, 1921 by Tom O'Neill, MA
RRP: $28.38$21.53In 1921, during the Irish War of Independence, the fort on Spike Island in County Cork was the largest British-military-run prison for Republican prisoners and internees in the Martial Law area, housing almost 1,400 men from Munster and south Leinster... -
In the Ranks of Death: The Irish in the Second World War by Richard Doherty
RRP: $20.63$15.21When war broke out in 1939 over 20,000 Irishmen were serving in the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force with the greatest proportion in the Army. During the war this rose to over 120,000, suggesting that about 100,000 enlisted during the war. Nine... -
Fifty Years On: The Troubles and the Struggle for Change in Northern Ireland by Malachi O'Doherty
RRP: $24.50$22.50Fifty years ago, an eruption of armed violence traumatized Northern Ireland and transformed a period of street protest over civil rights into decades of paramilitary warfare by republicans and loyalists. In this evocative memoir, Malachi O'Doherty not... -
The Great Irish Famine: A History in Four Lives by Enda Delaney
RRP: $21.92$16.09The Great Irish Famine of 1845-52 was the defining event in the history of modern Ireland. At least one million people died, and double that number fled the country within a decade. The Great Irish Famine surveys the history of this great tragedy... -
The Butcher's Daughter by Victoria Glendinning
RRP: $11.60$8.15'Historical fiction at its finest' @MargaretAtwood (Twitter) It is 1535 and Agnes Peppin, daughter of a West-country butcher, has been banished, leaving her family home in disgrace to live out the rest of her life cloistered behind the walls of... -
Victorian Maps of England: The county and city maps of Thomas Moule by Thomas Moule
RRP: $38.70$29.76The most beautiful Victorian maps of England's counties and cities - in large format - by one of Britain's great cartographer's Thomas Moule. Thomas Moule was one of the finest Victorian mapmakers and is regarded as the true follower of John Speed in... -
Empire and Enterprise: Money, Power and the Adventurers for Irish Land During the British Civil Wars by David Brown 9781526163783
RRP: $38.70$34.42This book is about the transformation of England's trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, a revolution that destroyed Ireland. In 1642 a small group of merchants, the 'Adventurers for Irish land', raised an army to conquer Ireland... -
The Wartime Irish Marine Service: The first-hand experiences of broadcaster Norris Davidson by Daire Brunicardi
RRP: $23.21$17.60'It was a farewell to all my pleasant life, a farewell to the enjoyment of summer. My theme was that we were all about to undergo a change. The hills and the streams would remain, the sun would set as redly on the western sea, but they would not ever be... -
Inside the GPO 1916: A First-hand Account Joe Good 9781847177186
RRP: $20.63$16.22A first-hand account of the 1916 Rising and its aftermath brings alive the historic events that ushered in the beginnings of an independent Irish state. A Londoner and a member of the Irish Volunteers, Joe Good guarded the approach across O'Connell... -
The Battle of Clonmult: The IRA's Worst Defeat by Tom O'Neill 9780750992213
RRP: $20.63$16.03Exhaustive research by the author of newly available primary source material has unearthed new facts surrounding the battle. The new information allows this edition to more accurately document and analyse the Battle of Clonmult. The book makes an... -
Con Colbert: 16Lives by John O'Callaghan
RRP: $20.63$16.22Con Colbert was one of the lesser-known leaders of the 1916 Rising. From a comfortable background in Newcastlewest, County Limerick, he moved to Dublin aged fifteen and worked as a junior clerk in a bakery. Already politically radicalised, he became...